Surprise! Half of all Medicaid recipients in Illinois are not eligible

You know what we need? A massive expansion of the supremely wasteful and fraud-fraught boondoggle that is Medicaid. Oh, wait. Obamacare’s already giving us that.

We can expect to see a lot more of what’s happening in Illinois, where half of all Medicaid recipients are ineligible for the program.

from KMOV:

The early findings of an ongoing review of the Illinois Medicaid program revealed that half the people enrolled weren’t even eligible.
The state insisted it’s not that bad but Medicaid is on the federal government’s own list of programs at high risk of waste and abuse.
Now, a review of the Illinois Medicaid program confirms massive waste and fraud.
A review was ordered more than a year ago— because of concerns about waste and abuse. So far, the state says reviewers have examined roughly 712-thousand people enrolled in Medicaid, and found that 357-thousand, or about half of them shouldn’t have received benefits. After further review, the state decided that the percentage of people who didn’t qualify was actually about one out of four.
“It says that we’ve had a system that is dysfunctional. Once people got on the rolls, there wasn’t the will or the means to get them off,” said Senator Bill Haines of Alton.